Karol Berger (born 1947) is a Polish-American musicologist.
Berger obtained his PhD from Yale University in 1975 [1] and taught at Boston University from 1975 to 1982. [2] He is currently a retired member of the Department of Music at Stanford University, where he holds the Osgood Hooker Professorship in Fine Arts. [1] He is the recipient of awards from the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation (1995) and the Swiss Musicological Society (the 2011 Glarean Award), [3] and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (the 2014 Humboldt Research Award). He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cracow), and a foreign member of the Academia Europaea.
Berger’s work has focused on the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance, aesthetic theory, and Austro-German music from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
He is married to the musicologist Anna Maria Busse Berger.
Karol Berger (born 1947) is a Polish-American musicologist.
Berger obtained his PhD from Yale University in 1975 [1] and taught at Boston University from 1975 to 1982. [2] He is currently a retired member of the Department of Music at Stanford University, where he holds the Osgood Hooker Professorship in Fine Arts. [1] He is the recipient of awards from the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation (1995) and the Swiss Musicological Society (the 2011 Glarean Award), [3] and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (the 2014 Humboldt Research Award). He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cracow), and a foreign member of the Academia Europaea.
Berger’s work has focused on the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance, aesthetic theory, and Austro-German music from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
He is married to the musicologist Anna Maria Busse Berger.